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Way too many people think things are back to normal, our help is deperately needed!

Awards_Winners - Boston College

Congratulations Bill!!!!!! You DEFINITELY earned it!

Awards_Winners - Boston College:

"The Boston College Alumni Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2006 Alumni Awards of Excellence"

"Young Alumni Award of Excellence
William J. Driscoll, Jr. '05
Bill Driscoll Jr. founded Persevere Disaster Relief in February 2006, only days after Hands On USA—the organization with which he had been volunteering since September—concluded its Katrina recovery effort.

Following graduation, he began work as a production assistant on several independent films. When Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, the images of devastation in the media moved him to head south to help. Driscoll joined Hands On USA in mid-September and spent the next four and a half months with the organization in Biloxi, Mississippi. In addition to participating with the rebuilding efforts, Driscoll returned to his alma mater to educate students and organize service trips, an initiative that now continues on with Persevere Disaster Relief.

In November 2005, the Boston Celtics honored Driscoll with their "Heroes Among Us" award. In January, First Lady Laura Bush presented him with the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for his work with Hands On USA along the Mississippi Gulf Coast .
Driscoll also started "The Next Great Pass" a service initiative in conjunction with the Boston College Appalachia Volunteers to bring groups to the gulf coast to aid in Katrina relief."

BonaResponds Spring Break 2006 Video

Over spring break 2006, nearly 300 (286) BonaRespond members (from all walks of life and all areas of the campus, the community, and the country) went to Mississippi and Louisiana to help in hurricane recovery efforts.

Meghan Backus, one of the leaders who had also been there in early October, made the following video for the University.





(As before, do everyone a favor and buy the music from the video. This is from U2. They own the copyright and deserve increased sales for allowing us to use their music!!!!)

BonaResponds Videos

We've had several requests for the BonaResponds videos, so here you go From our fall trip last year. Meghan made this one. All copyrights belong to their owners, but I would highly encourgae you to buy the music. It is good!

AP Wire | 09/06/2006 | Lawmakers to study modular homes for hurricane recovery

AP Wire | 09/06/2006 | Lawmakers to study modular homes for hurricane recovery:

"Modular houses are made in factories then shipped to home sites and erected on slabs. Because modulars are made to meet local building codes, they're often allowed to be put in places where mobile homes are excluded from permanent placement.

Manufacturers said modulars can go up in a matter of days if local building crews are available.

Gov. Haley Barbour says boosting sales of modulars could help speed the coast's recovery from Katrina, which destroyed tens of thousands of homes when it struck on Aug. 29, 2005.

Barbour wants lawmakers to cut the sales tax rate on modulars from 7 percent to 3 percent. Barbour said the change would shave $4,000 to $6,000 off the purchase price"

RedOrbit - Science - A Hopeful Investment: A Year After Katrina, Volunteers Help Rebuild Lives

RedOrbit - Science - A Hopeful Investment: A Year After Katrina, Volunteers Help Rebuild Lives:

"Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway, sweating profusely under the afternoon sun, was walked back to his SUV by neighbors surrounding John Henry Beck Park.

Holloway was there to help dedicate a beautiful playground and other park improvements, work completed in less than a day, and sponsored by KaBoom!, The Home Depot, Playworld Systems and the Hands On Network."

St. Bernard Parish Plans To Demolish Homes Not Repaired Since Katrina - Yahoo! News

St. Bernard Parish Plans To Demolish Homes Not Repaired Since Katrina - Yahoo! News:

"In St. Bernard, the parish wants to demolish abandoned homes that have not been repaired since Hurricane Katrina."

"The list will include homes where nothing has been done since the storm. From there, the buildings will appear on a demolition list."